So why was USPGA a great Championship?

We have been quiet for a while, but that is our way “make less noise” so to speak. the #USPGA championship was great in our view, however there seemed to be much noisy press around the championship.

The course wasn’t set up correctly? It didn’t reward the big hitters? It produced a very bunched leaderboard? No one ran away from the field?

In our humble opinion, if on Sunday at The Masters there were a large group of players, all within a few shots of the lead, then the ‘back nine at The Masters phrase’ would ring out. If a player then shot under par and moved clear of the field, hitting great shots, holing the vital putts, it would have been seen as a wonderful Masters performance. Ok, press/media would always prefer a Rory or a Scottie to win as that gets more column inches (if they exist anymore).

Why then, when exactly that happened at the PGA, was much of the commentary about the course set up, how no “big” player was smashing it and winning by running away from the field?

It proved that golf was (is) not always about hitting it miles and then lobbing it onto the green. A premium was put on hitting the short stuff and hitting the right portions of the green, then holing the putts. And Aaron Rai did that much, much better than the rest, and much, much better than the rest on the back nine, on Sunday, when it really matters. Well done to him.